The Mystery Of Iniquity:

MYSTERY OF INIQUITY: What or Who is the Mystery of Iniquity?

Jeremiah J Jameson

“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work”
–2Thessalonians 2:7

The question has been raised “Who or what is the mystery of iniquity?”

Since the “mystery of iniquity” is referred to quite often at ETPR, it was decided to try to explain the term as it relates to other scripture and the end times.

The “mystery of iniquity” was already at work almost 2000 years ago when the apostle Paul wrote his second epistle to the Thessalonians. Some newer Bible versions have changed the term to the “spirit of lawlessness.”

That is a slight, but important, change.

INIQUITY has a meaning which strongly suggests SIN (which is transgression against God): wickedness, gross immorality, sin.

LAWLESSNESS on the other hand paints a broader picture of possible behaviors; against God OR perhaps against man.

So Paul was writing about the “mystery of sin.”

What is this mystery of sin? What’s it all about?

The apostle gives a big clue in another of his epistles.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
–Ephesians 6:12

The mystery of iniquity are those who work to bring mankind to the point of open rebellion against God and His Son, Jesus Christ which is detailed in the Book of Revelation.

The workers of iniquity labor to bring about the return of the religion and society of the pre-flood world: when demonic power was on display everywhere; when the whole earth practiced sin and violence at all times; and when the rule of man was limited only by his wicked imagination.

There have been those who have claimed that mere men could not engage in such a long-term, multi-century conspiracy.

And that would be right: the mystery of iniquity IS composed of men. But these men do the work laid out by “principalities, ..powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places.”

The mystery of iniquity is the hierarchy of those who access demonic power; first, for their own ends, and then (more importantly), for the ends of those spirits which have enslaved these ignorant and deceived men.

Humans are offered various inducements to join in: trinkets, parlor tricks, deceptions; mostly earthly wealth, power, control, knowledge or pleasure–all which are fleeting, all which are temporary.

The men come and the men go, but the powers BEHIND the men are spiritual beings who continue on, generation after generation, using the men and women they first attract–and then enslave–to continuously further their plan, year after year, decade after decade, century after century.

Until we arrive at our present time.

Even the unsaved masses can sense there’s something not right.

Though dulled by propaganda, drugs and other distractions/deceptions, they know their situation and situation around them is continually deteriorating. The masses are moving toward the climax of human history, but they have been convinced there is no such thing.

Hence, they are uneasy but they can’t know WHY.

Though the leaders of the mystery of iniquity may have earthly wealth and power, they are deceived, blind, wretched, enslaved and miserable–while largely ignorant of their true condition.

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